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by tallanvor
3364 days ago
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Well, the small stations who don't have a person decided when to play the alerts are typically listening to two larger stations, and it varies which ones they are listening to. So yes, a malicious actor could conceivably do this, but he/she would have to be close enough the antennas and have a transmitter powerful enough to broadcast over the assigned signals. As others have noted, larger stations generally always have at least one person present who can verify alerts before rebroadcasting them. EAS is not a perfect system, but it's not the worst in terms of infrastructure weaknesses. |
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New rules recently in effect, presidential alert messages (PAM) are to be rebroadcast by station equipment immediately with minimal delay and without requiring operator intervention.